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8 CITATIONS • September 2004 JAMS
September 2004 • CITATIONS 9 VENTING THE GHOSTS By Philip Garrett Panitz Continued from page 3. saloon. Inside, the pink decor and the giant chandeliers, women with lace panty-hose doing cancan-like dances had been quite an experience for a then-fifteen-year-old. It had turned out that the place was only dressed like a bordello; it was actually a steak house. The girls there were just happy to have customers, and their flirting with me was quite a thrill. I remembered that it had been in a place called “Lamy,” but the only thing in Lamy was that steakhouse and the railroad station across the street. Nothing else. My mother and aunt both had died over a decade ago, and I was wondering what became of that mirage and whether the memory was truly real. On the map, Lamy actually existed, and looked to be about an hour east of Santa Fe. When we arrived at the Lamy exit, we drove for another maybe twenty minutes until the road went to dirt. Another ten minutes or so on the dirt road and Molly asked me, “Where are we going” I told her about the Lamy experience. As the road curved around a slight hill, two buildings were evident. A railroad station, with giant weeds growing through the tracks and a crooked sign hanging sideways from only one good remaining nail, moaned “LAMY.” Across the street stood a boarded up building, with half the roof caved in. I walked out of the car and looked at what turned out to be a condemnation notice posted on what remained of the front door. It had been condemned in the early 80’s, over twenty years ago. The building had partially rotted away from rain and disrepair. But I still remember the smiles it brought to a young boy and his mother and aunt when we found it out of nowhere thirty-three years ago. There was a certain sadness that hung over me as we drove away. It was truly left to the ghosts now, a childhood memory. And to think, I had taken the vacation to New Mexico to relax. Coming back to California had never felt so good. Noble & Associates –– : –– Philip Garrett Panitz, 2004 President of the Ventura County Bar Association, specializes in corporation and tax law.
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